Show America Scouting Can Make The THE ANNIVERSARY of the Boy Scouts of America is being observed during Boy Scout February 7 to under the America Scouting Can Make the ACROSS THE NATION THERE are now in Cub Scout Boy Scout and Explorer It is in these units that a boy's character is influenced by and Explorer Here the boys learn skills and leadership and are encouraged to become men of and participating citizens NEARLY ONE AND A HALF million adults gladly invest their time and energy as leaders in Scouting so that boys may grow into better SINCE 1910 THERE HAVE BEEN 37 and a half million American boys and men in RECENTLY MALCOLM B- executive editor of the wrote of his experience with personnel experts who told some editors how to and select They had a test for nearly work alertness and the like but they didn't have a workable test for initiative or SOMEONE the applicant how far he got as a Boy Scout If he tells you he made Eagle or almost made it you can be sure he once had most of what you want for a reporter or editor and that he still has JOHSON SAYS tried that test on beginning and it hasn't failed IT TARES and determination for a boy to win an Eagle Johnson By the time he gets he has the experience that will help him develop good high and probably personality if he doesn't already have THE EDITOR FUNDS OTHER elements in Scouting of great COOPERATION AND tolerance in a Boy Scout he underdog or the picked chicken soon finds a if he wants to help him take but there's and pride and THESE SCOUTS STILL HOLD God and country They still snap to attention for the They still mean it when they talk about doing a good turn every They take seriously the Law that a Scout must be and STILL STAND ERECT and swear to obey those laws and to keep mentally and morally Their badge still bears the motto THERE MAY BE SOME who'll call it corn and sneer at but nobody has offered anything to match it in making a real American out of a |